theirs) will suffice. The neighbors should not have to give up a portion of their yard in order to appease <br />OM C. More than doubling the number of households on our small lane will certainly increase traffic, and <br />as stated above, the City and applicant utilized the wrong standards in evaluating the impact to our lane <br />and in fact exceed the threshold that triggers further study. Oakleigh Lane will be more than minimally <br />impacted and at a minimum, the applicant must be required to conduct a traffic study prior to approval of <br />this PUD. <br />Simply put, the applicant has failed to provide substantial evidence demonstrating that this application <br />will not exceed minimal impacts upon the existing neighborhood and public park. <br />Since compatibility with the surrounding area is part of the special burden on applicants hoping to <br />change use in the Greenway, we feel these standards have particular force in the portion of the proposed <br />development that will destroy the meadow area of the Greenway. See below for more on Willamette <br />Greenway permit If OMC does not develop the portion of the meadow that is on the Greenway, <br />floodplain, and adjacent to public parkland, then screening of the condos and other buildings would be <br />improved. At the veryleast, the portion of the development that is on the Greenway, floodplain, and <br />adjacent to public park land must be denied. <br />In addition, OMC intends to solicit and invite the general public to their property on a regular basis in <br />order to hold events. They further intend to have a large sign on their property stating the name of the <br />development.. Neither intention is compatible or harmonious with the existing quiet residential <br />neighborhood. If the applicant wants to create a public event space, the proper place to develop that use <br />would be adjacent to River Road, not nestled at the end of a quiet residential lane. <br />Further, Metro PlanA.2 encourages the rehabilitation of existing housing and neighborhoods and <br />prioritizes the intent to maintain the single-family character of preexisting neighborhoods or at least <br />ensure compatibility with said neighborhoods. As previously discussed, more than doubling the number <br />of residential units on a small lane is not compatible. The high priced Condos within 0 MC, who carefully <br />scrutinize "members" for their willingness to engage in consensus decision-making will not be <br />marketable to the general public, and will certainly not be available for low-income households-which <br />is the component of our community that the Metro Plan articulates housing shortages. <br />4.. The applicant has failed to provide substantial evidence that the PUD complies with EC <br />9.8320(3). <br />The PUD application woefully fails at providing adequate-or any screening-- between the development <br />and existing properties as well as the public parkland to the East. from surrounding properties including <br />violating standards for setbacks. The PUD fails to ensure visual quality and views to the river and <br />parkland as the condo footprint is literally upon the eastern property boundary without any screening <br />adjacent to the City park. Although it is understandable that the condo tenants would like to expand their <br />private open space to include the public space, the dog walkers and bike path users will feel very <br />uncomfortable walking on the public open space adjacent to private condos that do not have any fencing <br />or screening to delineate where the public space ends and private property begins. This is a grave <br />encumbrance on public access to the Greenway parkland in this area. <br />West Property Line --The Applicant's plans show a row of garages abutting the west property line, <br />interrupted toward the midpoint of the property with a recycling building, and flanked to the north and <br />south by gravel parking spaces. The applicant fails to provide substantial evidence that this plan complies <br />801 <br />